Re: anonymous mail from Netscape

[Scott Schwartz <schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu>]

Gary Finley <gfin@psych.ualberta.ca> writes: 
| Since the user can just fill in whatever address he feels like  
| using, this is about the easiest way in the world to send abusive  
| mail anonymously, or to send a message that looks like it comes from  
| someone else.

This isn't a netscape thing: anyone can always fill in whatever address
they want.  SMTP has no built in authentication mechanism, by design.
That's just the same as with paper mail.  If you want signed messages,
tell everyone to use PGP.